I personally wouldn’t trust a guy who likes to watch people in station wagons turn their fellow man into a well-charred piece of scenery, but I guess there are people out there who would. The winner of the competition earns a single wish whatever their heart desires. The story, such as it is, involves a man named Calypso holding his deadly demolition derby on Christmas Eve in the distant year of 2005. It can be a bit of an issue, since the incentivizes driving away from danger while you wait for the repair points to come back online. These are single-use, but they do recharge after a while. These have a little more variety in them, giving you access to arcing electricity, ghostly heads, and even flame throwers.įinally, if your health is low, you can ride into repair points scattered throughout maps. Each vehicle also has a special weapon that recharges on its own. There’s also a variety of mines that… I’m not sure if I ever found useful. Weapons are picked up off the ground, giving you access to a plethora of missiles that freeze, burn, or just cause massive amounts of damage. You have a monster truck, a police car, a motorcycle, and, of course, an ice cream truck driven by an insane clown.
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In Twisted Metal’s case, most of the vehicles are simple civilian cars and trucks modified with machine guns and rocket launchers.
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You’re given control of a chosen vehicle, and you have to destroy everyone else in the arena. Vigilante 8, Battletanx, Rogue Trip (a game actually by the original Twisted Metal devs), and many more all hit the market to varying levels of success. On that thought, vehicular combat didn’t meet the same lasting success as the fighting or beat-‘em-up genres, but there was undeniably a surge of them towards the turn of the millenium. Much like how Street Fighter wasn’t the first fighting game, Twisted Metal was hardly the first vehicular combat game it was just the one that cemented the genre. The vehicular combat sub-genre is one that is mysteriously scarce in the current gaming scene, but in the late ‘90s, it exploded in the wake of Twisted Metal.
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It’s like going back to the days of bashing cars from the toy box together. So, my elusive little devil, what do you have for me? Only the digital PSN version ever passed my radar. Not every edition of it came in the ill-conceived tall case, but I don’t even remember spying a Greatest Hits edition. In fact, gazing at its bizarre early-PlayStation tall-case, it dawned on me that I don’t remember even having seen it before. I have vague recollections of having experienced later entries in the PlayStation series, but never the first. A friend of mine used to own a PS1, but the rental store we frequented only carried the sequel in perpetuity. The original Twisted Metal has been something of a mystery to me.